Sounds like it was a wild game in San Francisco. Stephen Strasburg had a filthy changeup working and allowed only one run over seven, but the Giants came back. The first big hit: Gregor Blanco tripling in a run in the ninth. The bigger hit: Pablo Sandoval hitting a two-run homer to walk it off in the tenth. The ball went 464 friggin’ feet.

But about that Blanco triple, get this:

Bryce Harper said to put the loss on him. Felt he should’ve caught Blanco’s triple and admitted collision w wall entered his mind.

Watch the play. Harper has a long way to run and a lot of guys likely miss that ball. But Harper does do a bit of a weird short-arm hop as the ball is getting to him. It’s hard to tell from the angle exactly how close he was to it. It’s possible that he just knew he was short and decided to cut off a leap and just get to the ball. But it’s also possible that, yes, he was feeling the wall, even though he wasn’t really close to it.

All of this, however, seems to be way less about fear vs. reckless abandon and more about Harper needing to get some confidence about where he is on the field at an unfamiliar park at any given time. I know the legend of his collision in Dodger Stadium is that he was sacrificing his body because he goes Mach 2 with his hair on fire all the time, but the fact is that he just didn’t know that he was that close to the fence. Same thing here.

So Bryce: don’t be so hard on yourself. You’re not going to Triple-A. You’ve had a bad week on a crappy road trip. Get some reps and confidence on balls back over you head and get beyond this.

The White Sox won’t make a bid for free agent outfielder Bryce Harper, Bruce Levine of 670 The Score reports. Believed to be the favorites to land shortstop Manny Machado in free agency, the White Sox watched him ink a 10-year, $300 million contract with the Padres. The club is apparently content with its roster otherwise.

Last season, Harper hit .249/.393/.496 with 34 hom eruns, 100 RBI, 103 runs scored, and 13 stolen bases in 695 plate appearances. He led all of baseball, drawing 130 walks. Harper is also a six-time All-Star who won the 2012 NL Rookie of the Year Award and the 2015 NL Most Valuable Player Award.